Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes
I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.
Paul Newman
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
M. J. Rose
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Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.
Paloma Elsesser
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
Yoko Ono
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
Carine Roitfeld
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When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
Viggo Mortensen
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J. Paul Getty
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That kind of empty; when hope is no longer deferred but evaporated, and try as you might, and you do try, you can't find the pleasure in the little things. A fine meal, good music, a breathtaking view of the landscape, the smell of the ocean, snow falling, it all adds up to a storehouse of memories and regrets, and you can't imagine there's a perchance left to be had.
Binnie Kirshenbaum
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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Don Marquis
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I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey
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God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we've waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us -- you just can't resist Him. I believe there's no such thing as luck in life, it's God's love, it's His.
Mother Teresa
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I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.
Paul Newman
